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Duplicate processes running in the background

Whenever I open Chrome or edge and start using it for a minute or so, the usage on my computer spikes up to 100 or high 90s. I looked at the background processes, and there were 3 or 4 "Google Chrome (32-bit)" or 3 or 4 "Microsoft Edge" running. If I close them out, they just keep coming back. I only have one window open at time.

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Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are multi-process web browsers. Which means that every tab, plugin, extension, etc. have their own instance (process). This is used mainly for sandboxing and enhanced security, so there's nothing wrong with that.

It would help if we could know what hardware you are running. Follow the instructions below please.

Speccy - Publish a snapshotFollow the instructions below to download and install Speccy, then to publish a snapshot of your system information:

Download and install Speccy from Piriform (the download will start automatically a few seconds after clicking on the Speccy link);Note: You can opt-out the Google Toolbar installation if you want;

Once Speccy is installed, launch the program and give it a good minute to load all your system information;

After that, click on the File menu in the top left corner, and select Publish Snapshot;

A window will appear asking you to confirm your decision to publish a snapshot. Click on Yes;

A new window will appear after, with a URL link to your snapshot. Click on Copy to Clipboard button to copy that URL to your clipboard, then paste it in your next reply and post it;

When your CPU usage spikes to 90-100%, what processes are using the most CPU?

Pretty much each duplicate is using up all of it. I was just using Chrome and checked, two of them were above 30% and one was above 20% and that was when total usage was around 75%. Its definitely coming from those, though. (or the Edge ones, when its that I'm using)